Bike nostalgia
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- Wolfboy
Hey there QBNers,
I’m working on a cycling brief at the moment and I need to do a bit of research and ask you all a couple questions:1/ What was your first truly memorable bike, BMX? Chopper? This might not be your first bike, but the one that you remember most from childhood.
2/ What did you do when you were a kid and were riding your bike? Not so much when you had a reason to ride, an A-B journey, but when you would go out and ride the pure joy of it?
Did you pretend you were Streethawk?
...Or was it less fantastical and all about building ramps and stuff?3/ Did you modify the bike superficially? Small things like stickers on the frame, spokey dokeys etc.
Any memories and nostalgia is what I'm after really. Things that remind you of the feelings of riding your bike as a kid.
I had a black Raleigh BMX (a burner) with yellow mag wheels.
Thanks
- lnu0
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Tons more Elf porn here:
http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/view…- I found this site earlier today, quickly lost about 45 mins to it!Wolfboy
- odds0
- 74LEO0
- i'm wearin these as we speak lolprophetone
- same, but in hempset
- haah haah nice i had the blue and black ones.74LEO
- goldieboy0
- Fucking rad.mikotondria3
- knew a few kids who had that GT on top. this was the ultimate thing to get for Xmas as a kid.CanHasQBN
- I had that EXACT SAME BIKE! laid back post and those grips with the tiny circles.fooler
- pic #2 jizz in my pants!74LEO
- Knuckleberry0
- Eddie Fiola styleegoldieboy
- kuwahara? fuck yes.doesnotexist
- Eddie rode for kuwahara first, than on to GT. Met him oncegoldieboy
- mikotondria30
Proper old school Chopper, bitches. With the extended seat pad.
A right pig to ride - the thing weighed more than I did. Unstable and difficult to control at low speeds, positively refused to go up many hillls.
Wild and dangerous over rough terrain especially downhill. Had some awful accidents hammering down unmade roads down steep hills. It would always wait until the very bottom and look for a nasty bush or a jagged fence or filthy ditch. Then it would very slowly tip back and the useless little front wheel would leave the ground and I would go hammering into whatever painful obstacle it had seen. The cranks had a terrible tendency to bend and render the thing immobile, in the rain, miles from home, as their filthy, bloodied owners tried to push them home, late for a cold supper, and no sympathy.
Straight up those stairs into the bath. Get out into the freezing cold with only a threadbare faded towel.
Fucking thing.
I loved it then but I realised after years of bike therapy that I hate it, and it has scarred me.- < my first bike was this, but with flowers on the seat (my sisters). I hated it so much.monNom
- GM2780
- @wolfboy to answer your ?'s this bike was a hand me down from my brother that started as a rusty lemon crate. It evolved into what you see. I pretended I was on a motorcycle as my entire family rode. (go figure)GM278
- into what you see. I pretended I was on a motorcycle as my entire family rode. (go figure)GM278
- Who is the hipster on the bike?utopian
- moogchild0
- Ridiculously rare now!DRIFTMONKEY
- hutch! for the ladies?74LEO
- Dude, that's Hollywood Mike Miranda's bike, Show some fucking respect! =)DRIFTMONKEY
- oh didnt know that was his thought it was for the ladies74LEO
- The more you know . . . • • • ° ° ° *DRIFTMONKEY
- Wolfboy0
You can't beat a big number on the front of your bike
- set0
- Sandman_19820
- Mainly loved to ride it for classic 80s gimmick which was the siren sound system on the handle bars.Sandman_1982
- Building ramps and pulling skids came when I was bit older.Sandman_1982
- necromation0
1. First real bike a Raleigh Boxer - but it was all about my Piranha BMX
2.Riding for the pure joy- Stunts, dirt jumps and general madness
3.Got a racing number plateMan, me and my crew was straight goonies! We would pretty much ride like there was no tomorrow. A few of us still have the scars.